Animal Adaptation Lesson 1

1. Animal Adaptations
Lesson 1: Where else in the Wild? More Camouflaged Creatures
Concealed….and Revealed
This unit was created to collaborate with the science
teacher who was teaching about animal adaptations.
In this lesson, students see an animal adaptation slide
that they used in science class. Students review the
steps of the research process (presearch, research)
and then we read Where else in the Wild? More
Camouflaged Creatures Concealed and Revealed by
David Schwartz and Yael Schy to answer our
research question. I put the book in a slideshow to
help the students better see and understand the
animal adaptation (camouflage) answers our research
question.

2. Welcome to
the library

4. Poetry Month

5. Dewey Decimal Section (811)
Poetry
Search: poetry Search: rhyming

6. Adaptations: a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its
unique environment.
What adaptations would an organism need to survive
in the following environments?
Science Class

7. What do you do when you
want to know the answer to
a question?

8. Research

9. Research is
what you do
when you want to
know the answer
to a question.

10. What adaptations do animals
have to protect themselves?
Presearch
Think of a
research question.

11. Think about what you already
know about your topic.
What adaptations do animals
have to protect themselves?

12. What resources do you think we
can use to find out the answer to
our research question?

13. magazines
Digital
resources
books
places
DVDs/TV

14. 2009
David M. Schwartz
Yael Schy
Dwight Kuhn

16. Inchworm
Why is it
camouflaged?

18. Orchid
Mantis
Why is it camouflaged?

20. Snowshoe
Hare
Why is it camouflaged?

22. Spring
Peeper
Why is it
camouflaged?

24. Crayfish
Why are they
camouflaged?

26. Black - Capped
Chickadee
Why is it camouflaged?

28. Lined Leaf - Tailed
Gecko Why is it
camouflaged?

30. Leaf Insect
Why are they
camouflaged?

32. White
Footed
Mouse
Why is it
camouflaged?

34. Scorpionfish
Why are they
camouflaged?

36. Ambush
Bug Why is it camouflaged?

37. Find books
Find your seat
and then…..
Read
Use your shelf marker to: